Tiger of a Book

From this Man Booker Prize-winning debut novel:

Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we
were never allowed to complete our schooling. Open our skulls, look in with a
penlight, and you’ll find an odd museum of ideas: sentences of history or
mathematics remembered from school textbooks (no boy remembers his schooling
like one who was taken out of school, let me assure you), sentences about
politics read in a newspaper while waiting for someone to come to an office,
triangles and pyramids seen on the torn pages of the old geometry textbooks
which every tea shop in this country uses to wrap its snacks in, bits of All
India Radio news bulletins, things that drop into your mind, like lizards from
the ceiling, in the half hour before falling asleep—all these ideas, half formed
and half digested and half correct, mix up with other half-cooked ideas in your
head, and I guess these half-formed ideas bugger one another, and make more
half-formed ideas, and this is what you act on and live with.

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